Clothes-drier



(ModeL) I G. H. HAYES.

CLOTHES DRIER. No. 349,092. Patented Sept. 14, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIQE.

GEORGE H. HAYES, OF DE RUYTER, NE\V YORK.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,092, dated September 14, 1886,

.\pplication filed February ll. 1886. Serial No. 10I.535. (Modch) drier with one clothes-bar extended for useand one hanging down. Fig. 2 is a rear view of the drier. Fig. 3 isavertieal section of my drier, taken on line 00 or, in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is also a vertical section of drier, illustrating both the operative and inoperative position of one of the clothes-bars; andFigs. 5 and 6 are detail views of the clothes-bar.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to produce an improved, durable, and effective clothes-d rier. It relates to that class of driers which are provided with multiple adjustable arms, adjustable either altogether or independently, and which can be folded or put back out of the way when not in use, the whole being suspended by a screw or nail in the wall. I

It is constructed as follows: A is the main frame, consisting of the top 1, rim 2, braces 3, ribs 4, supporting-bar 5, band 6, and bottom 7. The top 1 consists of the arms 8 9, of which 8 8 are the side arms, all of which are connected at the top to form the head 10, in which I make a hole for the suspension of the drier. The arms 8 lie in the same plane vertically, and with their extensions form the edges of the frame A in the same plane. The arm 9 flares outwardly and downward until it meets the outwardly-curved rim 2. This rim is a band of metal, substantially semicircular in form, extending from one side arm around outwardly to the arm 9, and thence inwardly to the other side arm, and the arm 9 projects beyond the front of this rim, so as to produce the flange 11, and through this rim,just below this flange, is a hole to receive the bolt 12. The braces 3 are of two kinds upward and downward. The upward ones connect the rim 2 to the bar 5, and sustain the central part of this bar, and the downward ones connect this bar to the band 6 and hold up the bar partly. The ribs 4 are bands of metal con necting the bar 5 to the band 6. stands outward from the extensions 13 of the arms 8, in substantially a semicircular form, and lies horizontal. The band 6 is simply a band of metal standing outward from the extensions 14 in a curve, which extensions meet the bottom side arms, 15, which meeting the center arm, 16, together form the lower end of the frame, the arm 16 being connected to the band 6 at or near its center. In fact, the whole frame consisting of the top 1', rim 2, braces 3, ribs 4, bar 5, band 6, and bottom 7areintegral with each other and with the extensions of the arms 8.

13 is my spacer, consisting of a body, 17, curved toconform to the outside of the rim 2, and fitting beneath the flange 11, and the fingers 1S, whichextend from this body over to or into the bar 5. This body also extends from one arm 8 over to the other arm 8. The fingers 18 divide the upper part or side of the bar 5 into spaces separated from each other.

C is one of the bars ofthe drier, consisting of a strip of wood fitting somewhat freely into a space between the fingers. Upon the under side of this bar I secure a loop-plate, 19, substantially as shown in the drawings. Upon its upper side I create a projection, 20, as, for in stance, by driving in a round-headed tack or screw.

It is operatedas follows: I mount the bars 0 upon bar 5 by passing the bar 5 through the loop-plate 19, with this plate upon the inner side. Then when I wish to use a bar, I raise the lower end from the position shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 4, upward and outward until it is high enough so that when I slide the bar inward the projection 20 will pass under the rim 2, and will lie behind or within this rim, as also seen in Fig. 4. To take down or lower an arm, I reverse the above operation, andthe arm will then hang down, as shown -in Fig. 1, or by the dotted lines in Fig. 4.

The spacer B may be made a part of the rim 2, in which case no bolt will be necessary, and the fingers will extend from the rim 2 to the bar 5, but will form compartments for the bars 0, in the same manner as above described.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A. clothesdrier consisting of the frame A, provided with intermediate rim 2 and band The bar 5 6, and barS, curving ontwardlymld connected bar 5, form the compartments to receive the to together by the braces S, the spneerB, consistbars 0, substantially as shown and described. ing of the body 11.7, having fingers 13, and so In witness whereof I have hereunto set my cured to the rim 2, and the bars (1, fitting behnnd this 2d day of ]!el)runry, 1886.

5 tween the fingers 1S, and mounted u won the t 7 1 7 bar 5, by the loop-plate 19, constructed and operating together substantially as described. In presence ol'- 2. In a elothesdrier, a removable spacer, \VM'. MAnsnALt,

the lingers of which, in combination with the JAM 16 TANNING. 

